Complete Kontact Backup and Restoration

[Ben Hayes]

James

On Wednesday 29 June 2005 00:25, James Gray wrote:
>
> ~/Mail - kmail folders etc.
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kaddressbook - address book data
> ~/.kde/share/apps/knode - knode (Usenet) data
> ~/.kde/share/apps/kwallet - KWallet, this is where passwords are stored
> etc. ~/.kde/share/apps/korganizer - Calendar etc.
> ~/.kde/share/config/ - contains the configs for all/most KDE components.
> Either backup this entire directory, or pick out the apps you want the
> configs for.
>
> So if you put each of those directories/files in a file, (one on each line
> without the "~/" because tar doesn't do the "~" expansion so will complain
> that a literal directory called "~" doesn't exist). Call the file
> "kontact.backup" in your home directory, then you can do some "tar" magic
> like this:
>
> cd ~
> tar -cf - -T ./knotact.backup | gzip - > knotact_backup-$(date +%Y%M%d).tgz
>
> When done, you'll have date-stamped file like "kontact_backup-20050629.tgz"
> with all your data in it :)  This is begging for a cron job isn't it ;)
>
> To restore a backup, reverse the process:
>
> cd ~
> tar -zxf kontact_backup-YYYYMMDD.tgz

I've often wondered where all the data was and how to go about backing it up 
myself.  Thanks for the info here my friend!

Ben